Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class

Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class

Synopsis

In the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement Barr-Melej shows how a diverse group of intellectuals, writers, politicians, educators, and bureaucrats forged a "progressive" nationalism and advanced and ambitious cultural-political pursuit of democracy between the 1890s and 1940s.